How to use jolokia to retrieve mbean for a class

Question

I have a mbean for a class say foo.bar.Log4j and I want to use jolokia to list all loggers?

I have tried reading on https://jolokia.org/reference/pdf/jolokia-reference.pdf but that tells me how to get values of predefined java.memory etc

Please suggest on how to get jolokia to retrieve loggers for a user-defined class

Answer 1

You have to keep in mind that even if your mbean is a singleton in your servlet, your servlet could be running on multiple endpoints - that's why the namespace alone is not sufficient to identify your mbean instance.

If you want to get all instances of foo.bar.Log4j, you can use the read endpoint like this:

http://yourserver/jolokia/read/foo.bar.Log4j:*

In general, you can get a list of all your available mbeans like this:

http://yourserver/jolokia/list

You should end up with a large json document that contains everything you might want to fetch. You will see things like

"foo.bar.Log4j": {
  "name=foo,type=MyLogger": {
    "desc": ...
    "attr": {
        ...
}}}

You can now get the attributes using something like this:

http://yourserver/jolokia/read/foo.bar.Log4j:type=name=foo,type=MyLogger

In addition to type and name, you may see other fields as well, for example context or id. This a:b key is the Java ObjectName for your mbean.